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Who Invented the First Battery?

By: Dusty Arlia
Published on November 27, 2011
Last Updated on Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 11:31 PM
Total Updates: 4

Around the year 1800, Allessandro Volta invented the first battery. He was experimenting with different metal discs in contact with a container of chemicals. He was soon able to get a charge to flow, and keep flowing, through a conductingwire. Small in size, weak in energy, and trivial in practical use, but it was a start for things to come.